I'm delighted to learn that I'm taxed in order to pay some barely literate petty bureaucrat to maintain a database of such national importance.

To play Devil's Advocate, Methinks, could it be just something as simple as running a "count" formula in the database to see what the Top 10 names are? I imagine the whole processes is computerized and I am wondering if there is really any extra work being done here on behalf of the barely literate bureaucrat.

I find a few of the names yucky, AIG. I'm going to refrain from mentioning which so as to avoid possibly and needlessly offending people who might have saddled their offspring with some of them. It's a matter of taste and I'm generally pretty tolerant of people's personal preferences even if they don't jive with mine.

I don't really have an obsession with Ron Paul, but I do think it is a sad day when people take it as normal for government to force us to pay for this frivolity.

As I said, the whole SSA should go. The name keeping another in a long string of annoying government waste and could very well be maintained and paid for by people who care about this kind of stuff.

Alas, it won't happen. There is no stopping government and there is no stopping people getting used to eventually not being able to wipe their own ass without a helping hand from Big Brother. One only hopes one can escape when one can no longer bear it (the United States is making that harder, btw).

What's wrong with Madison? It's such a beautiful name. If I have a daughter, I'll name her Madison. Madison Murphy, or Double-M for short.

It's a stripper name. 38% of strippers are named Madison. The other 62% are named M&M. Just as if you name your daughter Chloe..you pretty much condemn her to being a hipster living in Williamsburg making a living by growing roof-top cage-free mushrooms. 72% of hipster girls are named Chloe.

It can happen. But it can only happen if you hit the right buttons...not go in hitting every button one sees. The SSA and this baby-name business etc are symptoms of something else, they are not problems in themselves. We have to address the underlying cause of the symptoms, and that will take decades, because it took decades to get here first of all.

By that time, the most popular baby name for boys will be Ramen, and for girls it will be Zoey...and I would have thrown up so many times at the sound of these names.

That's not enough to turn me off those names, AIG. I have far more respect for hardworking, honest strippers and prostitutes than I have for anything crawling around Washington D.C. currently being addressed as "the honourable...so and so".

As it happens, one of my best friends named his daughter Chloe. He's French and it's a completely normal name. I assure you, she will not be a hipster.

As it happens, one of my best friends named his daughter Chloe. He's French If you're French, it is normal. If you're from Minnesota, you should never name your daughter Chloe. if you're from Minnestoa, the chances of having a hipster kid are already above average.

What, JM? Those names are perfectly normal for kids born in a hippie commune. You did say you went to high school in Berkley, yes?

Massachusetts. A fairly conservative town in Mass (the only one in Barney Frank's District to not vote for him).

The Harvest and Ocean ones come from Massachusetts. Those two (and their parents) are the biggest hippies you will ever meet. No joke. I mean the whole "You're wasting your time studying math and science. All a child really needs is music!" kind of hippie.

Jizel was as I was waiting in my doctor's waiting room here in New Hampshire.

I wonder how many of you are being paid right now to cry about shitty names and abolishing government, and about how Methinks doesn't understand how computer databases work, yet is still angry about them.

I wonder how many of you are being paid right now to cry about shitty names and abolishing government, and about how Methinks doesn't understand how computer databases work, yet is still angry about them.

Ron Paul pays me a dollar per comment.

The Koch brothers pay me an additional $0.50 per comment, plus $0.01 per word. That's why so many of my comments are long and I do full quotes.

I also get the pleasure of making the Dark Lord Satan happy, as we all know he is the one who developed a system that, not only limits the amount of damage greed can do, but has helped literally billions of people world wide escape absolute poverty.

"I also get the pleasure of making the Dark Lord Satan happy, as we all know he is the one who developed a system that, not only limits the amount of damage greed can do, but has helped literally billions of people world wide escape absolute poverty"...

I pay me, Methinks. Thanks for asking. Your killing what you eat comment makes no sense other than to tell me how tuff-n-cool you are, and let me tell you - mission accomplished. Awesome pun, by the way. Wizdumb. Just amazing.

Your comment about the database was intentionally obtuse. You've gone from turning a post about baby names into anti-government tantrum, and now you're implying that this SSA database is kept solely so that we can observe the genesis of the name Tiffany.

That's twisting. I know you learned it from watching politicians, but you shouldn't emulate them.

Your self-defensive need to protect your ideas about your intellect is showing. Bureaucrats are barely literate because...you don't like the SSA? And you are fuuuuuckin proud of your hunting/fox news idiom. More twisting. It's the only way you jagweeds can keep this shit up.

B...not sure what your problem is. I for one most certainly am being paid to post this stuff...but that's cause I work at a Union company and my right to do jack at work all day and still get raises, is well protected. Go SPEEA!

Everyone of all stripes banded together to discuss silly children's names.I do believe, my friends, we may have just found the solution to the world's problems.

I don't know. It's not a party till VangeIV shows up. Methinks may not realize this, but the name "shu-teeed" may very well be Arabic, probably Egyptian. And we all know what they say about Egypt.